It was the worst of times and then times got fucking worse.
By Andrew J. Pridgen and Kyle Magin
In hindsight we might think about how cute and quaint our complaints of this year really were with no world wars, no internment camps, no jailings of dissenters and not having to say sentences like, “I can’t believe they bombed my Starbucks...

With plans to break ground in 2017 on a massive mountain redevelopment, we’re not saying the Basin’s most notorious big-ski-structure firestarter Alex Cushing would be proud ...but…
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Homewood Mountain Resort will suspend all skiing activities Wednesday after a fire broke out at the resort’s south lodge shortly after 3 a.m. The two-alarm fire decimated the building...

Make it a stocking stuffer, as long as your feet are the size of Coit Tower.
For Immediate Release
Dec. 22, 2016 – Squaw Valley Ski Holdings, LLC, in an effort to bring forward additional holiday mirth for supporters of the Village at Squaw Valley redevelopment project, has come up with what every skier totes has no idea he really...

Today is the day a chosen few will voluntarily move to appoint a despot the leader of the free world. How we got here and what to do now.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
I find this past month that I vacillate between "Well, who knows what will happen, just have to keep moving." And "Oh shit, time to move into...

My tax dollars. Your luxury properties.
Written by Kyle Magin
If you choose to live in a glass-walled beachfront home with a cutesy name like ‘Sandy Bottoms’ on the Outer Banks or Big Pine Key or any of America’s thousand other coastal retreats for Baby Boomers, you’d think you’d have to assume the risk of climate change-fueled tides ripping that sumbitch...

Patagonia is giving 100% of its Black Friday sales to eco-charities. Form-fitting fleece pullovers that match your Subaru and a PR coup, what’s not to love?
By Andrew J. Pridgen
For the entirety of this decade up until this time last month, I worked for an e-commerce firm. The melt into a chair that was never set quite right in front...

They won’t listen to us. Now it is time to make them hear us where it counts: The bottom line.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
We live in the unfortunate time of magical-thinking-meets-sensationalism, Of trolling. Of doing the exact wrong thing when we should be doing the right thing. Of taking the easy way out. Over the last few weeks America...

Placer County Supervisors showed little regard for what residents of the Tahoe Basin want in a development by approving a 760-unit Martis Valley West project in October. A lawsuit soon followed. They are now expected to kowtow to current Squaw owner KSL’s mid-20th century mountain-town-as-airport-Hilton vision for Olympic Valley 9 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 15 in Kings Beach. How it...

And we rebut Holmes' well-timed appeal to the public prior to Placer County Supes' Tuesday decision whether to let a private equity firm go forward with a tantalizingly horrible development plan for Squaw.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Say it ain’t so JT.
Like basically everyone else on this ever-revolting, ever spinning green and blue marble, I am a fan of JT Holmes...

Democracy is on the mat. But we need to stand up, if not together than for one another.
By Andrew J. Pridgen
Like the majority of Americans, today I woke up with the worst hangover of my life. And I did not drink a drop last night.
I have not felt this bad since the morning of 9/12/01. And I do not...